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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Surname Saturday ~ SPARKS of Ipswich, Massachusetts

SPARKS

The first record of John Sparks is dated 24 July
1650 when he was apprenticed to Obadiah Wood “bisquit maker” in Ipswich,
Massachusetts [Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County,
Massachusetts, 1900, Volume 1, page 200]. Obadiah Wood married Margaret, John’s
sister. In 1664 John rented half a house
from Thomas Bishop of Ipswich. On 14
February 1671 John Spark bought two acres in Ipswich for his own bakery, and an
“ordinary” (tavern).

He married Mary Roper, daughter of Walter Roper of
Ipswich. There was an early article in the
1977 issue 98, pages 1904 – 1905 of The
Sparks Quarterly published by the Sparks Family Association that stated that
John Sparks married Mary Sinnett of Boston.
This was reversed in issue 164, pages 4192 – 4229 when an article by
Russell E. Bidlack described the will of Walter Roper that names his daughter
Mary (Roper) Sparks, and her children.
See my blog post last week on the Roper family to see a transcription of
that will. Mary’s will is transcribed
below from the Essex County Probate 25951, dated 9 December 1711. She died sometime before 26 July 1712 when
her son-in-law Thomas Newman was appointed executor of this will:

In the Name of God, Amen. I Mary Spark of Ipswich in the
County of Essex in New England, Widow, being Weak of Body but Thro the great
Goodness of God, of perfect Mind & Memory Doe make & Or Dane th8& no other to be my Last Will
& Testament. Commending my Immortall Soul into the hands of Almighty God,
Hopeing in the Mercy of God thro the Meritts [of] Jesus Christ to have the full
& free pardon of all my Sins & Resurrection unto Everlasting Life,
& my Body I Comitt to the Earth when dead, to be bureyed according to the
Direction of my Exer hereafter Named in a Christian, Decent Manner-and as for
the small portion of Worldly Goods which I have in possesion or may be Due to
me or my heirs after my funerall Charges are Defrayed, I give & Dispose of
the same In Manner & form following:

Imp1'. I Give to my Daughter,
Susannah Annable, Twenty shillings out of the Legacie left me by my [brother]
John Rooper in his Will W" It shall be Due.

Item In Consideration th^### I am & am
like to be More Chargeable & Troublesome To my son, Thomas Newman & my
Daughter Rose Newman with whom I Now Live, I Give unto Them & Their heirs
for Ever all the Rest of my Estate, Either in possesion or reversion of what
Kind or Nature so ever or In whose hands It is or May be found In, as a finall
a reward of the Daily Love & Service, & I Ordain my said son Thomas
Newman To be sole Executor of this my Last Will & Testament. In Witness
Whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand & Seal the Ninth Day of December Ann
Dome Seventeen hundred & Eleven.

Generation 1: John Sparks, born about 1630, died
before March 1704 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married Mary Roper, daughter of
Walter Roper and Susan Unknown. She was
baptized on 22 August 1641 in Hampton, New Hampshire and died 1712 in Ipswich,
Massachusetts. Eight children.

Generation 2: Elizabeth Sparks, born about 1666
probably in Ipswich, died 10 April 1692 in Ipswich; married on 25 December 1684
in Ipswich to Jacob Perkins, son of Jacob Perkins and Elizabeth Whipple. He was born 3 August 1662 in Ipswich, and
died 12 November 1705.

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